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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1056107" data-attributes="member: 8530">"The James Gang Comes to Town"Chapter 17, “Three months later…”, July 29th, 1881:A little over three months have passed since we last visited with Arcade’s Gang, which has been a relatively quiet time for them in Promise City.    During the month of May, Circuit Judge Nathan Isby came to town for Louie’s trial.   After hearing testimony from the El Parador Cantina witnesses the Judge declared Louie innocent of murder, declaring that the killing was done in self-defense.    Marshal Bret Hollister was not pleased with this decision, and has continued to suggest that Arcade and his associates should move on.Also in May, Morgana and Sam finally received their back pay for work on the Rocking H Ranch.  The ranch owner, Forest Morand, sent the money to them via his son Zachary, who owns the Morand Cartage Company in the northeast corner of Promise City.   Zachary mentioned that he might want to hire Arcade’s Gang as additional guards if he ever needs to have a valuable shipment to send.    In early June the railroad line being constructed between Tombstone and Promise City ceased construction.   The official reason was that the railroad company needed to temporarily allocate their resources to complete a railroad line in the northern part of the state, however the rumor has it that Kris Wagner, owner of the local Wells Fargo Stagecoach, bribed them to stop construction as it would have severely hurt his business. In mid-June the Liberty Hill Mine struck a very profitable silver vein.  Additional miners were hired, and Arcade’s Gang was reinstated as full-time guards for a three-week period while the majority of this vein was mined.   The Gang has now returned to being only on retainer, at half-wages.   The English Duke and his male halfling associate have now moved on to visit his other mines, but the halfling’s sister Sydney Sue has decided to remain in Promise City. Arcade’s Gang has continued to be omitted from mention in the papers.   During this time they have also taken on a few odd jobs.  Arcade and Morgana have started doing some large animal veterinary work, and Morgana has also assisted as mid-wife for a few human births.   Louie has done some odd jobs at half-orc Charlie Wong’s Laundry, where the owner’s daughter Mary Wong seems to have taken an interest in him.  Sam has worked part-time at Driscoll’s Tannery.    Overall, the Gang’s individual incomes have exceeded their cost of living, for a slight profit for each (3d20$ and %cents).While the town itself is not very large, being a mere four by six city blocks, the Gang has stayed pretty much in the poorer southeastern corner of town, where most of the non-humans reside.   They occasionally see a few wealthier towns folk coming into the El Parador Cantina to partake of the female entertainment, but otherwise have had minimal contact with the more respectable members of town.   Furthermore, the banker Frank Condon, doctor James Eaton, and Great Western Boarding House Owner Bill Watson have formed the Promise City Civic Association, whose main goal appears to be to institute Law and Order to the town and run out “undesirables” like Arcade’s Gang. The Gang has made friends with the employees and residents of the Cantina, as well as several neighbors.   The Cantina is owned by wood elves Pedro and Dorita Figueres, whose daughter Sanoma sings and dances to the maraca and concertina music provided by Estaban Fuente, who also serves as the Cantina’s bouncer.   The Cantina’s three resident harlots, Estaban’s sister Maria, Pepita Alverez, and Angelica Husesca provide other entertainment.   Angelica’s four-year-old half-elvan son Ricardo assists the Cantina’s human workman Grant Keebler.  Estaban has also been teaching the lad how to pick pockets.  The other two employees, who reside elsewhere in town, are the bartender Jose Ramirez and his twin brother Carlos who runs a gambling table at the establishment.  In addition to Arcade, Sam, Louie, Sydney Sue and the centaur Qualtaqa, there are now four other long-term residents of the Cantina, all non-human.   These are an older wood elf named Manuel Gonzalez, who is believed to be a retired priest; Juan Gomez, a charismatic wood elf hired gun, who has had moderate luck with gambling; Kentucky “Shotgun” Krugg, an ogre who was once a slave, who works as both a hired gun and a miner at the Liberty Hill Mine; and Nils “Great-Axe” Svelsfjord, a dwarven prospector who has been trying to stake a new claim in the hills near town. The neighbors that the Gang knows best include their associates Morgana, who resides in the tree grove behind the adjacent Celtic & Mexican church, run by the priest Thomas Valdez, both half-elves.   Their associate and fellow mine guard Hank resides across the street at the Great Western Boarding House.   The half-orcan Wong family resides nearby, and consists of Charlie and Li Wong, and their children Mary and Harry.    Another family that the Gang has come to know is the Toluccas, who are chicken farmers of the wood elf race.   They consist of Juan and Maria, and their children Roberto, Consuela and Manuel.   Roberto is infatuated with the female entertainers at the Cantina, and Consuela often sings along with Sanoma and Morgana.  Other friendly neighbors who spend time at the Cantina include Cole Rixton, a respectable human who owns a nearby furniture store.   Hannibal Brown, a human who runs Brown’s Ice House next door also begins his day with breakfast at the Cantina.  The party also sees his children Maxwell and Liza, both in their early twenties.  Liza is a flirt, who has currently caught the attention of Rixton, Hank and Juan Gomez.   Maxwell dislikes both Hank and Gomez, wanting her to take up with only Rixton.   Ice House employees Samson Hill and Beecher Lawson also spend time at the Cantina, usually with the female entertainers.  The last two neighbors that the party has gotten to know are a pair of successful gamblers who live in the house behind the Cantina.   They are humans Conrad Booth and Paget Flashman.  These two usually have their first meal of the day at the Cantina around noontime, before heading over to the their tables at the Long Branch Saloon.  Pedro is content that they have no interest in gambling at the Cantina, as they have a less-than-stellar reputation and have been banned from two other saloons in town.</blockquote>

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